Functions of Nouns - Owlcation - Education2
A word can be used to describe a person, place, animal, or thing.It is possible to name a state, an activity, or a quality.
The work that a noun does in a sentence is referred to as its grammatical function.In this article, we are going to look at the five functions of a nouns.
When the subject of the sentence is a noun, it will come before the main verb.The noun will start the sentence more often than not.
Someone killed a snake last night.The subject of the verbs "killed" and "Stacy" is the same.
The highlighted nouns are functioning as subjects to their respective verbs.They are the subjects in their respective sentences because they come before the main verbs.
A noun is an object of a verbs when it comes after an action verbs.The recipient of an action will always be the object of the sentence.
Tom slapped Jerry.We say it is the object of the verbs "slapped" and "Jerry" since they are coming after each other.
The highlighted words are the objects of the verbs.They are functioning as objects of their respective verbs because they are recipients.
When a linking verb or a state-of-being verbs is followed by a noun, it will function as the complement of the other.There are some examples of linking verbs in the English language.
The highlighted nouns complement their respective linking verbs.
The object of a pronoun comes after a preposition in a sentence.The object of a preposition is any word that comes immediately after it.I gave the book to John, that's the object of the sentence.
Let's take a look at some more examples of what the object of a pronoun looks like now that we know what it is.
From the examples above, you can see that each of the nouns highlighted are objects of their respective prepositions.
This is the most important function of a word.A person can be in apposition to another person.The word "apposition" means putting a word next to another word to explain it.You have a good example of a noun being in apposition to anther noun if you see one next to another.
The footballer has been suspended.There are two words next to each other, namely "footballer" and "Suarez".It is possible to replace the word "footballer" with the term "Suarez" and give some information about the other word."Suarez" is in apposition to "footballer"
The highlighted nouns are being in apposition to the nouns coming before them.
Having read from the beginning to the end of the article, I hope you have a good idea of what the functions of nouns are and what each of them looks like.You should read this article again if you haven't gotten it yet.The understanding will start to trickle in gradually.
Let's see if we can identify the functions of the highlighted nouns in the following examples.
The function of a pronoun and a noun are very similar.When a noun can be placed, a pronoun can also be put there and eliminate the noun.This is the reason why pronouns can perform all the functions of the noun.The lesson on the functions of pronouns can be found here.You should also read that lesson.